British Columbia will once again have a Human Rights Commission. Newly in-power NDP Premier John Horgan made the announcement last week, returning the commission to the province after it was shuttered 15 years ago. The…

Candice Lewis is a 25 year old Newfoundland & Labrador woman reported to be living with a number of conditions, including spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and chronic seizure disorder. Lewis was in a St. Anthony hospital in November…

In R v Strauss, the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed multiple convictions for which the appellant had been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The Court of Appeal differed sharply with the Superior Court’s decision to…

On Thursday, July 27, Justice Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada granted intervener status to nine out of twenty-six potential interveners in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada…

The High Court in London, England, has given Liberty, a U.K. civil liberties and human rights organization, permission to challenge parts of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. The 2016 law, which Liberty has called an “authoritarian…

In two decisions released today, the Supreme Court of Canada has outlined precisely when the Crown’s duty to consult with First Nations is triggered. The first decision, Clyde River (Hamlet) v. Petroleum Geo-Services Inc., came in…

The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal has found that a Montreal-area mechanic dismissed an employee due to the cost of his medication and that the dismissal constituted discrimination. At issue was whether the employee, MC, was…

Winston Blackmore and James Oler, former leaders of the religious community Bountiful in southeastern BC, have been convicted of polygamy. Both are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a sect…

Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…